I Came Home Early For My Daughter’s Birthday

breaking. “He what, Sarah?”

Tears finally spilled from her eyes, hot and fast. “He said he was in trouble, Mark. Bad trouble.”

She told me everything, the words tumbling out in a torrent of shame and fear. Daniel’s gambling problem had spiraled. He owed someone a lot of money. A man she’d never met, a man whose name Daniel only spoke in a whisper.

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